The ribosome is one of the most iconic machines in molecular biology—a complex structure that reads a recipe written in RNA to assemble amino acid building blocks into new proteins. Ting Zhu of ...

Researchers show that polymerase theta can efficiently convert RNA sequences back into DNA, a feat more common in viruses than eukaryotic cells. Editor's Note: Thomas Jefferson University issued the ...

Coronaviruses are a broad group of RNA viruses that can cause respiratory distress. Polymerases, which help in the replication and translation of genetic material, are crucially important for the ...

PCR, or Polymerase Chain Reaction, is a revolutionary molecular biology technique that allows for the rapid amplification of specific DNA sequences. It is an essential tool in various fields, ...

Nipah virus is a zoonotic virus harbored by fruit bats. It can be transmitted to pigs and humans, infect people through contaminated food, and can travel directly from person to person via droplets.

Instead of focusing exclusively on the spike protein, COVID-19 vaccines could also attend to another viral protein, the RNA polymerase that coronaviruses use to make copies of themselves. This dual ...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a fundamental molecular biology tool that scientists use to amplify and analyze genetic material, such as DNA and RNA. PCR involves the enzymatic amplification of ...

Researchers studying SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, have published another structure of a viral protein that could be a target for treatments, including Gilead Sciences’s ...